tattered wings
the slow fade
of a monarch’s reign
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Kim Klugh
Kim Klugh lives with her husband in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she is an English/writing tutor at a local college. Her haiku and senryu have appeared in Failed Haiku, Modern Haiku, Wales Haiku Journal, Poetry Pea, The Heron's Nest, Frogpond, and Autumn Moon Haiku Journal.
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Perfect!
This is moving and subtle.
The most delicate and tender
I have seen about the monarch.
Thank you!
I love this
Grand Kim_!
___ Here, we can see such a paralell twixt birds and fish; scales, are the "fish fearhers."
sun-light fins
as birds swim in air
thoughts bubble
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Beautifully rendered and painfully poignant when extrapolated out to the species.
I’m happy to hear they may be making a comeback.
suburban mums
– Monarch’s
fluttering after Occupy